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A new update rollup is available for Microsoft Monitoring Agent. The KB article below describes the issues that are fixed in this update and as well as installation instructions.

Issues that are fixed in this update rollup

- Proxy settings are added to the agent setup wizard. Users can now provide proxy settings while they complete the agent installation wizard.

- Account validation steps are added to the wizard. After users enter an account and workspace to connect to Operational Insights, the wizard performs a test to verify that the account information is valid.

- Connection status is added to Control Panel. A connection status feature is added to Control Panel settings for the Microsoft Monitoring Agent.

For additional details please see the following:

KB3032946 - Update Rollup for Microsoft Monitoring Agent (KB 3032946) (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3032946/)

J.C. Hornbeck| Solution Asset PM | Microsoft GBS Management and Security Division

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Forefront Endpoint Protection blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/clientsecurity/
Forefront Identity Manager blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ms-identity-support/
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Forefront UAG blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/edgeaccessblog/
Application Proxy blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/applicationproxyblog/
The Surface Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/surface/

We are excited to share that we will have 5 SCOM & OpInsights sessions led by the engineering team at Ignite Chicago. If you are attending the conference please join us at these sessions. We would be happy to answer any questions you have on our products before and after the presentation. If you have any questions on the sessions post a comment below and we will respond.

Looking forward to meeting you all in person!!!

Session Code	Title	Date\Time	Speakers
BRK3499	Building Highly Effective Dashboards in System Center Operations Manager	Wednesday, May 6th 10:45 – 12:00AM	Liz Kim, Richard Rundle, Laura Cruz
ILL3451	Instructor Led Lab: Onboarding to Azure Operational Insights	Wednesday, May 6th 1:30PM – 2:45PM	Laura Cruz, Alex Frankel
BRK3500	Log Analytics and Visualization using Azure Operational Insights	Thursday, May 7th 9:00AM – 10:15AM	Joseph Chan, Satya Vel
BRK3464	Security Threat Analysis using Azure Operational Insights	Thursday, May 7th 1:30PM – 2:45PM	Joseph Chan, Tigran Shahbazian, Daniele Muscetta
BRK2467	Microsoft System Center Operations Manager: Monitoring in a modern world	Friday, May 8th 12:30AM – 1:45PM	Nagender Vedula, Richard Rundle

We are also going to have a customer meet up on Wednesday May 6^th, details on that event will be posted on the blog next week, so keep a look out for that.

-Satya Vel

We have a new article published that guides you through how to troubleshoot agent connectivity issues in Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager. If you’re having OpsMgr 2012 agent connectivity issues then this document is a great place to start.

KB3035262 - How to troubleshoot agent connectivity issues in System Center 2012 Operations Manager (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035262/)

J.C. Hornbeck| Solution Asset PM | Microsoft GBS Management and Security Division

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System Center 2012 Operations Manager
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When you try to push a Windows System Center 2012 Operations Manager agent from a Windows Server 2012-based management server to a Windows Server 2012-based agent server, the installation fails and you receive the following error message:

The Operations Manager Server failed to open service control manager on computer server2012agent.contoso.local.
Therefore, the Server cannot complete configuration of agent on the computer.
Operation: Agent Install
Install account: contoso\scom_admin
Error Code: 800706D3 Error Description: The authentication service is unknown.

When you try to connect to the services console of the agent, the connection fails and you receive the following error message:

Windows was unable to open service control manager database on server2012agent.
Error 1747: The authentication service is unknown

For complete details as well as a resolution, please see the following:

KB3054347 - Error 800706D3 occurs and a push installation fails for an Operations Manager 2012 agent to Windows Server 2012 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3054347/)

J.C. Hornbeck| Solution Asset PM | Microsoft GBS Management and Security Division

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ConfigMgr 2012 R2

Just a quick note to let you know that the Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager has been released.

You can find more details about the reporting features introduced in this management pack here.

Please install the DPM 2012 R2 management pack that shipped with DPM RTM bits if you intend to install the DPM central console. If you install this management pack directly, the DPM central console won't install because the central console installer has a hard dependency on the version of the DPM 2012 Management Pack that shipped with the DPM RTM bits. You can upgrade to this version of the DPM 2012 R2 Management Pack after you have installed the DPM Central Console.

Suraj Suresh Guptha | Program Manager | Microsoft

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Orchestrator Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/
Operations Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/
Service Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager
Virtual Machine Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm

We would like to invite you to join us for a discussion on the future of System Center. This is an opportunity for you to meet the System Center leadership team and influence the direction of the product. We will have dedicated tables to discuss various topics with members of the product team and you will get a chance to speak directly with Jeremy Winter and Angie Anderson the Directors of System Center. This is a FREE event for all Ignite attendees and drinks will be provided.

Please RSVP by clicking “Accept” on the meeting invite and sending us a response. We would like to gather a headcount as we have limited capacity.

We are looking forward to meeting you.

Satya Vel

A map of the meeting room can be found here. The meeting room is located in the Lakeside center building, second floor, room E271A in the McCormick Convention Center (Chicago).

Just a quick note to let you know that Update Rollup 6 for System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager is now available. The KB article below describes all of the issues that are fixed in OpsMgr 2012 R2 UR6 and contains complete installation instructions as well. Note that not only does this update rollup include updates for Operations Manager, it also contains updates for the Unix/Linux Management Pack.

For complete details regarding UR6, please see the following:

KB3051169 - Update Rollup 6 for System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3051169/)

J.C. Hornbeck| Solution Asset PM | Microsoft GBS Management and Security Division

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In System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (OpsMgr 2012 R2), the Microsoft Monitoring Agent service, also known as HealthService.exe, may get stuck in the Starting state in Service Control Manager. In this scenario, you can't stop the service through Service Control Manager or by using a command prompt, and if you manually end the HealthService.exe process in Task Manager and then try to restart the service, the problem recurs.

For complete details as well as a resolution, please see the following:

KB3058405 - Microsoft Monitoring Agent Service freezes during the startup process (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3058405/)

J.C. Hornbeck| Solution Asset PM | Microsoft GBS Management and Security Division

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ConfigMgr 2012 R2

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Operational Insights. At the same time, Operational Insights is now a part of the new Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS)– which provides unified IT management for any enterprise while taking the hassle out of managing and maintaining infrastructure. It brings together a collection of IT operation solutions, including log analytics, automation, recovery and security, which will help simplify management of your datacenter assets wherever they are – in your own datacenters or in public clouds like AWS or Azure.

Visit www.microsoft.com/OMS and Try it for FREE today!

OpInsights now serves as the log analytics, visualization and solution platform for OMS, giving OMS users an incredible experience, access to a growing set of IT operation solutions and fast search/access to a massive machine data repository to develop custom insights!

For existing OpInsights customers, your accounts have automatically become OMS accounts. No special actions are needed. Just go to www.microsoft.com/OMS, sign-in with your existing account and Try the enhanced experience!!

Joseph
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Consider the following scenario:

- You had an instance of Microsoft SQL Server that no longer exists.

- The Operations Manager Data Warehouse database is moved to new instance of SQL Server.
- The Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager management server tries to communicate with the instance of SQL Server that used to host the data warehouse database.

In this scenario, you receive event IDs 31551 and 31565 as follows:

Log Name: Operations Manager
Source: Health Service Modules
Date:
Event ID: 31551
Task Category: Data Warehouse
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: ServerMGMT1.Contoso.MSFT
Description:
Failed to store data in the Data Warehouse. The operation will be retried.
Exception 'SqlException': A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)
One or more workflows were affected by this.
Workflow name: Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.CollectAlertData
Instance name: Data Warehouse Synchronization Service
Instance ID: {26BC200F-C4C9-F25C-8D8E-5AE8603C3782}
Management group: ManagementGroup1

=====

Log Name: Operations Manager
Source: Health Service Modules
Date:
Event ID: 31565
Task Category: Data Warehouse
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: ServerMGMT1.Contoso.MSFT
Description:
Failed to deploy Data Warehouse component. The operation will be retried.
Exception 'DeploymentException': Failed to perform Data Warehouse component deployment operation: Install; Component: Script, Id: 'ffdaf07a-73e1-892f-b687-89385b3744cf', Management Pack Version-dependent Id: 'de2dc89e-3efa-9865-fd1c-b0cf297cd8fd'; Target: Database, Server name: 'OLDSQLSERVERNAME', Database name: 'OperationsManagerDW'. Batch ordinal: 0; Exception: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)
One or more workflows were affected by this.
Workflow name: Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Deployment.Component
Instance name: Data Warehouse Synchronization Service
Instance ID: {26BC200F-C4C9-F25C-8D8E-5AE8603C3782}
Management group: ManagementGroup1

For complete details regarding this issue as well as a resolution, please see the following:

KB3058923 - Event IDs 31551 and 31565 when the Operations Manager management server tries to contact the data warehouse database (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3058923/)

J.C. Hornbeck| Solution Asset PM | Microsoft GBS Management and Security Division

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ConfigMgr 2012 R2

A new Guided Walkthrough (GWT) is available below that helps identify and resolve issues relating to agent connectivity problems in System Center 2012 Operations Manager.

An Operations Manager agent is a service that is installed on a computer. The agent collects data, compares sampled data to predefined values, creates alerts and runs responses. A Management Server receives and distributes configurations to agents on monitored computers. Every agent reports to a Management Server in the Management Group. This Management Server is referred to as the agent's primary Management Server.

Agents watch data sources on the monitored computer and collect information according to the configuration that is sent to it from its Management Server. The agent also calculates the health state of the monitored computer and objects on the monitored computer and reports back to the Management Server. When the health state of a monitored object changes or other criteria are met, an alert can be generated from the agent. This lets operators know that something requires attention. By providing health data about the monitored object to the Management Server, the agent provides an up-to-date picture of the health of the device and all the applications that it hosts.

The Operations Manager agent sends alert and discovery data to the primary Management Server, which writes the data to the operational database. The agent also sends events, performance, and state data to the primary Management Server for that agent, which writes the data to the operational and data warehouse databases simultaneously.

The agent sends data according to the schedule parameters for each rule and monitor. For optimized collection rules, data is only transmitted if a sample of a counter differs from the previous sample by a specified tolerance, such as 10%. This helps reduce network traffic and the volume of data stored in the operational database. Additionally, all agents send a packet of data, called a heartbeat, to the Management Server on a regular schedule which is by default every 60 seconds. The purpose of the heartbeat is to validate the availability of the agent and communication between the agent and the management server. For more information on heartbeats, see How Heartbeats Work in Operations Manager.

The article below contains a link to the Guided Walkthrough that will help you solve some of the more common problems with agent connectivity in System Center 2012 Operations Manager:

KB3057825 - Troubleshooting agent connectivity problems in System Center 2012 Operations Manager (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3057825/)

J.C. Hornbeck| Solution Asset PM | Microsoft GBS Management and Security Division

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Just a quick note to let you know that the "Windows Server Print Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2" has been updated. The newest version has the two below changes.

- Support for Print Clusters

- Removed the Windows 2003 print server management pack

You can find all the details as well as a download link here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=3290

Suraj Suresh Guptha | Program Manager | Microsoft

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Currently, many of you have to wait until the maintenance window arrives to put machines/devices to maintenance mode or have to use custom created Orchestrator runbooks/tools to achieve triggering maintenance mode at a future time. You expressed in your feedback that you would like to see a feature to schedule maintenance at a future time out of box in SCOM. We heard you and are excited to share that we released a feature in SCOM Technical Preview 2 that will enable you to put your monitored entities to Maintenance at a future time. The feature will give you the ability to create recurring maintenance schedules with options to schedule daily/ weekly/ monthly. It will also give you the ability to view all maintenance mode schedules created using this feature in one screen and also give you the ability to schedule multiple jobs for the same entity. Please watch out for this feature in System Center Technical Preview 2. You can find the Evaluation VHDs here and documentation about the feature here.

Suraj Suresh Guptha | Program Manager | Microsoft

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~ Brian McDermott | Escalation Engineer

If you use groups in System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr 2007, OpsMgr 2012 or OpsMgr 2012 R2) and add one to a Distributed Application, you might discover that you can no longer find that group in the Groups pane once that is done. For example, first we create a group as seen below. Now you see it…

…you add it to a Distributed Application…

…and now you don’t.

If this happens to you, don’t be too concerned as the group hasn’t actually been deleted. It is still there, still doing what it was doing before it disappeared. In fact, it hasn’t completely disappeared, as you can still see it if you look for it in the Object Discoveries pane. So it’s just that it’s not visible in the Groups pane anymore.

However I suppose you want it back, and that seems a reasonable request, so read on to find out how.

In order to ensure that you group comes back, and to ensure that groups no longer disappear when you add them to a Distributed Application, you can use the following trick.

Create a new group that has a dynamic group membership that contains all other groups, but excludes itself. It is very important that it excludes itself otherwise you have created an infinite containment loop and that would be bad. The reason this will work comes down to the reason the groups disappear in the first place. The way we list the groups is in a tree hierarchy. We query for the top level objects and then display the groups nested below them. The problem arises because when we add a group to a Distributed Application, the group is no longer a top level object and so it is no longer returned by the query.

Anyway, here are the steps to do this and thus avoid the problem.

1. Create a new group as shown below.

That’s it.

You will now have a new top level group, which in my example is named Expand to see all groups…

As long as you never add this group to a Distributed Application your groups will never disappear again.

NOTEBe prepared to wait a while for the group calculations to run before the view changes and your groups are back.

Brian McDermott | Escalation Engineer | Microsoft GBS Management and Security Division

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The Application Proxy blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/applicationproxyblog/

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In April, Google disabled support for NPAPI plugins in Chrome by default. Among other plugins, it means Silverlight will not work by default and you will not be able to install it. If you follow a prompt to download and install Silverlight from Chrome, you will see the exact same prompt the next time you go to the page, and it will appear as if nothing has changed.

In OMS, we still have two pages that use Silverlight: The Account Settings page and the second level drilldowns of the Configuration Assessment Solution. We are actively working to port these last two Silverlight pages to HTML5, but in the meantime here is what you will need to do.

To fix this you need to enable NPAPI support from chrome. Type chrome://flags in the address bar to access the experimental features menu. You will see this screen:

Look for the experiment Enable NPAPI and click the blue enable link.

Finally, you will have to restart Chrome for the changes to take effect. You will see that a RELAUNCH NOW button appears at the bottom of the browser window.

That’s it. Head back to the account settings page to confirm the changes have taken effect – you may need to reinstall Silverlight one more time, but then you should be good to go.

We are proud to announce the preview release of the Open Source Software (OSS) Management Packs for System Center 2016 Technical Preview 2. These management packs bring rich performance and health monitoring to favorite open source applications running on Linux - Apache HTTP Server and MySQL Server. The OSS management packs join Microsoft’s current management pack offerings for UNIX/Linux operating systems and Java Application Servers. Paired with the Linux management packs, System Center Operations Manager is now the IT Admin’s one pane of glass for full LAMP stack monitoring!

The OSS Management Packs MSI can be found here, and extracts the following management packs:

Microsoft.Oss.Library.mp

Microsoft.MySQLServer.Library.mp

Microsoft.ApacheHTTPServer.Library.mp

The OSS Management Packs for System Center 2016 Technical Preview 2 require the latest Technical Preview 2 management packs for Linux. The Linux Technical Preview 2 management packs can be found on the System Center 2016 Technical Preview 2 Operations Manager media. The OSS Management Packs are not supported on UNIX operating systems (IBM AIX, Oracle Solaris, and HP HP-UX).

Apache HTTP Server

Apache HTTP Server monitoring is enabled through importing the following management packs: Microsoft.ApacheHTTPServer.Library.mp, Microsoft.Oss.Library.mp. The Apache HTTP Server management pack supports Apache HTTP Server versions 2.2 and 2.4. Additionally, the Apache HTTP Server management pack gives you detailed metrics for the following:

- Percent of Busy and Idle Workers

- Consumption of memory and CPU

- Statistics pertaining to Virtual hosts such as requests and errors per minute

- Alerting on SSL certificate expiration

MySQL Server Management Pack

MySQL Server monitoring is enabled through importing the following management packs: Microsoft.MySQLServer.Library.mp, Microsoft.Oss.Library.mp. The MySQL Server management pack supports MySQL versions 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, and 5.7 along with MariaDB Server versions 5.5 and 10.0. The MySQL Server management pack features the following:

- Performance statistics for Key Cache, Query Cache, Table Cache

- Performance data on connection usage and failed connections

- InnoDB Buffer Pool hit and usage statistics

- Disk Space usage for individual databases

Leave comments and suggestions for the preview release in the comments section at the bottom of this post, and stay tuned for Apache HTTP Server and MySQL monitoring walkthroughs on the Operations Manager blog.

Resources:

90 second overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-NKtpXxX-s

Detailed overview: http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2015/BRK3500

Twitter Account: @msopsmgmt

Onboarding guide: PDF attached below

Satya Vel

Are you using IIS Log Collection for Operational Insights (now a part of Operations Management Suite)? If so, please read on. This change will affect your Operations Management Suite (OMS) workspace.

On Wednesday, June 3^rd we will be pushing down new Operations Manager rules that will change how your IIS logs are sent to OMS.

Currently we push all IIS logs through your management servers before being sent to OMS. We’ve found that in some cases this was putting too much load on the management servers. In order to fix this, we’re going to be routing these logs from the agents straight to OMS– bypassing the management servers completely.

We use the same configuration for the collection of security events for the Security and Audit solution. If you are already using this solution, you are likely already prepared for this change.

In order to configure your agents to handle this change, here’s what you’ll need to do:

From the Operations Manager console, in the ADMINISTRATION pane, click on Operational Insights connection.

Click on Configure Proxy Server and input your proxy address. This will be used by both the management server and the agents.

If your proxy requires authentication, you will need to set up a “Run As” account

If you have firewall rules on the agents you will also need to update these firewall rules to allow the following urls:

- *.ods.opinsights.azure.com – Port 443
- *.blob.core.windows.net -- Port 443

NOTES:

If you’ve already configured Operational Insights to use a proxy and your agents have permission to use that proxy, you are already set up for these changes
If your agents are configured to with outbound internet access, no action is require
Both agent and management server need to be update to SCOM 2012 R2 UR3 or 2012 SP1 UR7 or higher

The Operations Manager team is interested in your feedback! We are committed to keeping customers like you happy and productive. Your response to this survey will help us better understand your needs and problems so that we can improve the next version of Operations Manager.

If you have any problems responding to the survey, please feel free to send me an email.

https://aka.ms/scomcustomer

Suraj Suresh Guptha | Program Manager | Microsoft

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Last week was the Ignite conference in Chicago, and it was a blast!

There was also a lot that happened, so to help you catch up with the key Operations Manager related news from Ignite I've pulled together the following summary.

Platform Vision & Strategy (6 of 7): What’s New in System Center for Management

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2459

Why watch it?

Great for an all up view across System Center
Operations Manager specific content starts at 32 minutes

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager: Monitoring in a Modern World

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2467

Announcements

SCOM agent to run on Nano Server as part of System Center 2016
Network monitoring enhancements coming in System Center 2016
MP Catalog improvements coming in an update rollup
Storage Spaces MP for 2012 R2 now available

Demos
- Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016
- Forthcoming Azure MP for System Center 2012 R2
- Scheduled Maintenance Mode in System Center 2016 preview
- Modern Dashboards using the upcoming SQL Server Management Pack for System Center 2012 R2
- Apache and MySQL Monitoring in System Center 2016
- Configuring Operations Manager to report to the new Operations Management Suite (previously Operational Insights)
- SquaredUp HTML dashboards

Building Highly Effective Dashboards in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2015/BRK3499

Demos (all using System Center 2012 R2)
- Examples of dashboards created by partners
- Building dashboards with the dashboard widgets released as part of a update rollup 2.
- Modern dashboards for any computer group using the forthcoming SQL Server MP
- Azure MP

And last, but not least, we announced the availability of System Center 2016 Technical Preview,

A new Update Rollup for Microsoft Monitoring Agent is now available

Issues that are fixed in this update rollup

SCOM & OpInsights Sessions at Ignite Conference in Chicago

How to troubleshoot agent connectivity issues in System Center 2012 Operations Manager

KB: Error 800706D3 occurs and a push installation fails for an Operations Manager 2012 agent to Windows Server 2012

System Center Management Pack for "Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Reporting, DedupReporter, Discovery and Monitoring" has been released

System Center Customer-Product Team meet up at Ignite 2015

Update Rollup 6 for System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager is now available

KB: The Microsoft Monitoring Agent Service freezes during the startup process

Azure Operational Insights generally available & becomes a part of Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS)

KB: Event IDs 31551 and 31565 when the Operations Manager management server tries to contact the data warehouse database

Guided Walkthrough for troubleshooting agent connectivity problems in OpsMgr 2012

Windows Server Print Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 has been updated

Maintenance Mode scheduling at a future time in SCOM Technical Preview 2

Where on Earth did that group go? Why OpsMgr groups may go missing when added to a Distributed Application

Enable support for Silverlight in new versions of Chrome for OMS

Now Available: Open Source Software Management Packs for System Center 2016 Technical Preview 2

Learn about the Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) in less than 90seconds

Important configuration changes for IIS log collection in Operations Management Suite

Operations Manager Customer Feedback Survey

Operations Manager news from Ignite 2015